The Sun. — London, England, 1810-02-16 00:00:00

Posed to b e concerned is such - transactions. The Learn ed Gentlema n reco ll ecte d , t h at i n t h e course 0 " 11 _had beer p roceedings against Pohlmann and Keylock, it beer. stated that per sons hi g h i n office had been j r 3 tl l l icatel . in si m il a r transactions—that the late of Portland received 30,0001. a-year, bythe rof offices-L -th a t th e L or d Chancellor :kept .an tTi ,titee for th e sa l e of places. The N oble Lordeein te questi ons h e h ad asked, conveyed an imputation h e ! he Officers of the Cr own f or not h av i n g „done n- duty. • • z . .._,Lerd FOLK-se-wee disclaimed any such intention, "_u said the L earne d G ent l eman had not answere d el :auesti ore The AT TORNEY-GENERAL replied, he had no such s „ 2c L u tnems, and therefore could not institute any Proceedings.. SttT he SOL ICITOR -GENERAL denied that he had any documents.- 4r. H. ADDINGTON was disposed to support the i a °ll . Gentlema n in hi s mot i on f or I nqu i ry i n t o t h e li a arra ck Depa r t ment ; b ut cou ld not see any par r J tte ntary ground s f or th e p ro d uc ti on of the Tapers acing to, Lord Barham. I tie motion was then put and negatived 'Without 4 dike,- ion. Nl\lr. W ARDLE then tneved for a general return' of t he Clerk s o f the different departments of h av Y Office, the NavyPaY-Office, the .Transport ~ce, and th e Si c k and. Hurt Offieee their ages, ti l .number of y ears t h ey h a d b een i n t h e s er vi c e, elr salaries, &c. Sze. Sh A ie WARD objected to this motion, as no ' case had bee n ma d e out . V ea ;gr• WARDLE contended, that he had laid a strong 1 % in hi s opening speech. I t ,r. D. GIDDY thought, if this motion were th q," a r t " l, a more ruinous system could not be, than at,hr ° the public offices seniors should be invade t l Pr°rhoted, without reference to qualification. pto 'e tiouse were to be called to inquire into . every et i i iii ,. ° tioa in the public offices, it w ould be 'tapas there'. `,'")_ go on with the public business. He should This vote againet the motion. a ,1•". 1s rn ,, tion was also put and negatived without 'hasl et); te o l\ :. l , r ; Waunee then moved for a Copy of the Mee ei ( tr Statement of dr. William Pearce, late p e rk t ° the Commissioners of the Barrack Depart sent in on t h e 31 s t October, -160, to the es` e, - {l''''llmissiorters of the Treasury. . rreition was agreed to. E fe e le House then went. into a Committee on the - I . v iieZzlere ent laidl,l.' before thought that some case Should have been tip the Home by the Hon. Bart. as the gronn ,l u a qti which he h a d ch ow - 4 1,1 it right to bring for au,d t his meas u r e. He did not feel it necessary to iie", lll „ e nt the list of felonies, without canste; and in its apprehe ns i v e, that if the Bill were to pzss 's P r esent form, it would be produaive of great : nv enience to the pubic service. Geutlemen of thnthility would not feel deeireus of engaging in lee n -4 ' ll c service in places of great trust in the col of the resenue, with tl.e penalty of trans if th - ,"„r 1 banging over them, , as would be the case Ecie? Bill were to pass ; and upon a charge so dif el--n-.l° b e defined, and so easy to be misrepresent , . inu misconceived as embezzlement. slat. J- tnitt iiEwruliT was surprised to hear such A it st l ril ent from the Hon. Gentleman, when so many le c ;'''ces existed to the contrary. It Lad been ob lap, that he used the term embezzlement. He am' such was the term made use of by law, In ,Rothe laws punish embezzlement with death.—each instance of Bankers' Clerks it was. made but in the enactment of that law, the Hot). 1;,,, n : t rilan's sensibility did not rise—no, no, it did I st! till it w a s attempted to extend it to public eie. Ati pi e d et a conversation- on this clause, which occu qe, consider:ll)le time, in which the Attorney theV,4l) the'Solicitor-General, Sir S. Rotnillv, and th, ir '' )l !cllor of the Exchequer severally delivered ZNI opinions, pr oor r . : -e N SO N ty moved, that they shobld'report th e l F s4 i. Which being agreed to, the Speaker tdok g ot progress was reported, and the Committee i ' e at'e to sit this day se'nnight. Se: rd PORCHESTER moved for leave that the pi a e t Committee should adjourn from place to . rep ort oheni and progress from time to time.—Leave His Lordship then moved the Order of the Day, s trangers were ordered to withdraw. N 1 Al I.S, A „"tivan —2, Heligoland, Jamaica, : Dublin. G.'ottenburgh, 3 Waterford. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWLLVE O'CLOCK. c onsol s 67i1 T 1-1 E S U N. lOLIhf Qt;IS DICERB lALSUM AUDEAT ? _ L 0 jr D 0 IV, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16, !SW.' ' A dvices, we understand, were received this day,. ctlfir ming what we said yesterday reSpeeting :he pro bAah'lilY that the Toulon Fleet was on the eve of sailing. 1-4.tter from Lord COLLINGWOOD, dated the 23d 'Ilt • says, that his Lordship had been telegraphed by ( 31 the frigates, stating, that the Toulon • fleet ting a t L every moment be expt.aed to put to se-4. It Was with much regret that we Y&A-€l . *' corn "/RiCated to our Readers the unfavourable gen ce Which had reached us from Spain. "nfess th at i t i s with feelings of equal surprise and c(lncern that 'we found that the French had- been st lifered to pass the Sierra Morena almost without re4istance. Notwithstanding all the time the Spa niards have h a d f or p re paration, the passes of that for midable chain of mountains have not been secured. e do not like to pass general censure, or' to throw out 'usPicions at random, but such „extraordinary 'ernissness can only .be imputed to. treachery, ti : t 4 suppose that the• Junta wete absolutely • . The consequenCes, however,,have been I not ion• was most fatal. Cordova and Seville have fallen into the hands of the French, and when Capt. SnurtirT, who brought the dispatches for Government, left Cadiz, the Enemy was tinily expeaed before that place. The inhabitants of that city, are posed to defend themselves to the last extremity, but we fear the want of provisions will render it impossible for them to resist for any length of the DI ke of A.Laulauestaus,but ALAVA, the Admile.l of the Fleet, is a person on whom no reliance is to be placed. It has been a culpable neglda of the Spanish, as well as of the English Government, to have suffered such a man to remain so long in this important command. Part of our army, we under stand, is colleaed at Ronda, and part at Granoda but as soon as the French shall.advance to Parez and Port St. Mary's our communication with the rest of the country, will be entirely cut off, except by sea. We are in expeaation of a reinforcement of English troops from Gibraltar to assist at the defence of Cadiz, and many thousand persons'are at work in completing the fortifications on the Peninsula which had been left unfinished." NAVAL NEWS: PLYMOUTH, FEB. 14.—The Master of vase (lately captered by the Gascon privateer) an:. a here this inerning from Falmouth, whither he wa landed from .. . a. neutral vessel which arrivocl t. from, Boerdeaux :—he states, that he was calrieii into - 1 ) .6 . 4ge,-a town in Spam, from whence he w !c marched to Bayonne ; left the latter ph"e o I . Bth January, for the purpose of being conduae a prison about 700 miles into the interio, of France ; and was to pass through Bourdeatax : on his arrival at the latter place, he heard \ that a neutral vessel was about to sail for England, a a short time after he found means of escaping on bo .d her, and :sailedatheGth iestent. During his rc to Yesterday accounts were received from Holland, to BOurdeatix ahe met several thousand. Freach which contain fresh instances of the tyranny of. troops marching into- Spain, who Were to he reale , BCO'.4APARTR against the unfortunate people of that pleted to 400,000 men. BUONAPARTE'S Gterol , , country. All English property between the Scheldt consisting of 2500 men, bad arrived at Bourdeao and the Maese, is to be sequestrated, and all colonial l whither he was expected to arrive about the 18th r produce seized. American 'ships are forbidden to tgth of this month, to follow them on their way to enter the ports of Holland under any pretence what- Spain. ever; and, to complete they climax, he has ordered Atrrived his Majesty's ship Indefatigable from a the principal inhabitants of Dutch Brabant to send ' crui'o off Bourdeaux a his Majesty's ship ()resits their children to Paris for education. By this bar- from a cruise ; Dove, LORD, from Nawport ; Ann, barons artifice, he not only keeps hostages for the Verreev ; and Golden Grove, Miees, from Nearli ; condua of the parents, but has the children trained and the Ateona, MACKEY, from Cadiz . . up in sentiments calculated to support his system Put back by contrary winds his Majesty's slip and his interests. But here he seems to outstep the Dreadnought, bound to Basque Roads. • limits of discretion ; for it is impossible that the Sailed the Voyager transport (with part of the children should not feel detestation towards the man French prisoners taken at St. Domingo), for Mae who tears them from their dearest connections. Iu laix. fad, he sheays by this very measure, a conviaion of theabliortence in which he must be held, for sa- PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 1 5.--Came in the Flora, GARDNEK, and Betsey, BERKLEY, from the Down• , crifieing the freedom and independence of every the fowler for Nlogadore, and the latter for the M - State at the shrine of his ambition. diterratseaue . a Arrived the Hero, ROACH, from Sunderla id, d In Mr. Ross's Observations, &c. &c. lately pub- the Emily, GAEOLN ER,. from Lonion. . • fished, there is a very clear, though concise state- FALMOUTH, FEB. 13,—Arrived the Prince Erkest ment of the retrenchments in public expenditure, • packet with a mail from Jamaica. effected by Mr. Pere--retrenchnients directly opee • rating upon the public expenditure, but in their HARWICH, FEB. 15.—This morning arrived the consequences upon the patronage of Ministers. Earl (f Leicester and Lord Duncan packets, with They amount to two millions, five hundred and , mails and paasetigers, from Heligoland. • - • ninety thousand pounds a year. Those who now say that the system upon which Mr. PITT acted, and which the present Minister follows, is hostile KINGSTON, .3 AN. 12. to reform, would do well to consider this pamphlet ; The Rainbow frigate, of 24 guns, Captain Wool. - DRIDGE, and the Reindeer brig, of ta.guns, Capt. they will see in it the difference, in point of effeEt, between the reforms of a practical statesman , and DOUGLAS, anchored at Port - Royal on Sunday, froin Cork and Barbadoes, having under their convoy the those of a wild theorist, or an insidious demagogue. ships Jane, Eliza, and Pusey Hall. They sailed It is one of the most valuable documents that has from the Cove on the Gth of November, eith 31 ' sail of merchantrnen for the West-Indies, arrived at Barbadoes on the 12th inst. and left there the i ships Concord,. Wiesoe ; and Severn, POW ELt from Bristol. On the following day they quitted Carlisle Bay, with 20 sail, for this island, together with the King David, for Nevis; Ulysses, far St. Vincent's ; and Betsey, for Grenada ; which sa sets parted shortly after for their respeetive destine- time. We are glad to find that precautions have been taken for the security of the Spa- nish Fleet, which consists .of fifteen sail of the line; it has been mcored, as we stated yesterday, outside the British Squadron. All the merchant vessels at Cadiz have been put in requisition to bring away the different Members of Government, and such of the inhabitants as may choose rather to leave their Country than to submit to the tyranny and rapacity of the French. The sudden and unex- Lpeaed irruption of the French into Andalusia must, lof course, have excited considerable alarm and con ; fusion, and it is therefore not surprising that many . contradietory accounts should have been received ' from that quarter.—The following are among the Letters that have been received : " SEVILLE, JAN. 17.—The French are at the fbet of the Sierra Morena. They have been repulsed by the division of BIGADOT at Villa Manrique. " The enemy have penetrated by the Puerto del Rey. Our army has fallen back on Jaen. The ad vanced posts of ALBUQUERQUE, who is marching to our assistaecea arrived at Guadalcanal. COUPIGNI has advanced froth hence to cover Carmona ; but we have no force to stop the progress of the enemy. — The greater part of the Junta have left this place for the Isla de Lean, and the remaining Members are to embark to-night, and go to Cadiz by water." . " ISLA DE LEON, FEB. -2.--NO sooner was it known that the Junta had fled from Seville, than the people took up arms, and having set at liberty the CONDE DE MONTI3O and Don FRANCISCO PALA FOX, who had been imprisoned on a charge of con . - spiracy against the Government, they surrounded the Junta of Seville, demanding the immediate ap pointment of a Regency, and exclaiming against the Supreme Junta as traitors to their country, who had abandoned the passes of the mountain to the French, and then fled to - Cadiz with the money which they had received from America. The Junta of Seville refused to nominate a Regency, but admitted Moe- Tele and PALAFOX as Members of their own body, and appointed the Marquis of ROMAN A Commander of the army of Castile, in place of the Duke of PARQUE. ROMANA, who had been earned about a fortnight before Captain-General of Valencia, but had not left Seville, accepted this command, and took part with the insurgents ; and couriers were dispatched to stop the Members of the Supreme Junta, who had fled to Cadiz, and arrest them as traitors to their country. At Xetex de la Fresno:re Majority - - leis the Archbishop of LAODICF.A, Piesident of the We have great hopes that the report of the in junta ; VALDEZ, formerly Minister of Marine k sea - realm] and massacre at Ceylon will prove to be and OVALLE, one of the Deputies of Estremadura, unfounded. The 19th Regiment, which is stated were seized by the populace, and would probably to have suffered on the occasion, was not at Ceylon but at Quilon, on the Malabar Coast ; the similarity .have been put to death, had not some persons who of the name may have led to a mistake. .had influence with the mob got them shut up in the A most sumptuous entertainment was yesterday and detained them there as given at the City of London Tavern, by the Grenada Carthusian Convent, Planters and Merchants, ,to Major-General Meer prisoners of state. On the news of these excesses, LAND, G • General CASTANOS, who was at the Isla, de Leon, A - person who held a situation in the Viaualling exerted himseif to procure their liberation, and had I Department at the Cape, - and who is implicated EXTRACT FROM THE MINUTES OF THE SECRETARY with other persons, two of whom were executed ate OF STATE, PALACE OF THE THUILLERIES.—BY them conveyed in safety to the Isla ; but as they the Cape, for raising troops and other high crimes DECREE OF 30TH JANUARY, 1810. felt that their authority was now completely at an against the Government, has been brought home in 1 " All the English merchandize that exists in the end, no sooner 'had they assembled at that place, irons. Mr. K-- , t, having sonic important infor- t owns and places situated between the A:hese and Illation to communicate to Government, has been the Scheldt 'is confiscated. with the other Members of the Junta, than they ap- borne sent for that purpose, and expeas to obtain i " The produa is destined to repair the havoc and pointed a Regency, composed of the' Bishop of his pardon. He is at present confined in a strong p ill age o f Fleshing. cell, in Plymouth Clink, doubly ironed and strongly t "All colonic) t nerchandize is put in a state of ORENSE; Of SAAVEDRA, Minister of Finance; of guarded. CASTANOS, Captain-General of Andalusia; of E. sequestration." We have received Hamburgh Papers to the 4th CANO, Minister of Marine; and FERNANDEZ De i ns t: The following are the only articles of their " 4 " 4 " T! " DE A DECREE OF THE KIEG OF H°L " LAND, FEB. I, 1810. Leote, Minister of the Indies; and transferred to i contents worthy of being extratied : " The first Secretary of the King's Cabinet being ANCONA, JAN. 14.---Since the 25th of last month these five -persons . the government of the coon- duly authorized . by Decree of the itlst inst. informs upwards of forty merchant ships have arrived in the Direetor of the Customs, that is the posit:ve try. This appointment took place on the eeth of this port. For this revival of our .maritime trade intention of his Majesty, that provisionally no Anze- January. we are indebted to the temporary absence of the rzcan vessels shall be suffered to enter any of the English ships of war, which have all left the Adria , " The French are in the mean time advancing . ports of this laingdom, whatsoever their cargo may tic Sea, and proceeded to Corfu. without opposition, Cordova, which was indeed VIENNA, J. 2.1.—0ur Court Gazette of this consist of, or from whatsoever port they may have sailed : f , or her . they have been in England, or incepable of defence, has surrendered to them with- day contains the following article :—" Couut Spuc- have been overhauled on their voyage by the Eng calolf Lieutenant-General and Adjutant-General of ' fish or not ; bait that these ships shall go` to sea out resistance. Their head - quarters are at Alc ala de his Majesty the Emperor of all the Ressies, arrived Guadayra; two leagues from Seiille , and o nl y 17 here on the 12th inst. on an extraordinary mission again as soon as possible, without having diachargt d leagues from Port St. Mary's. We are as y et une ;from Peterslnirgbi I , and had, on the 1 5 th, his first any , part of their cargo le ." . • he Decree le w tse spectally charges the Direetor audience of his Imperial Royal Mitjesty." to give the necessary orders t hat the ab ate ,posee e acquainted with the fate of Seville, but. considering tEYEACII, JAN. IB.—lt is reported that the Rus- 1 in Trieste and intention of his M:ijo.sty be executed punetesne. the great extent of the works that surround it, and siert squadron squadron which is now lyine the want of any troops of the line fin its defence, ' Venice, and consists is the whole of 20 sail, will 1 EXTRACTS OF LETTERS FROM semerreineal. soon. be' in a fit condition to cruize against the I " FEB. 2.—Toe French are already at Dor we cannot flatter ourselves with the hope of its English. . . drecht ; and it is confidently said that Genaral making the least resistance. Our own situation . Wednesday evening, as a gentleman was going 00e 9t , has e r s ee sto take military possession ()idle would have been equally desperate, had not the through the croud in Basinghall-street, during the Coetitry:frorn . Nirneguen along the River, the Islands morn- drawing of the Lottery, he had his pocket picked of between, the Scheldt and Meese, and ths... Zealand Duke of ALBUQUERQUE arrived here this 351. in bank notes. ; IslapdOl. I.he consternation great On 'Change." ing with 8000 men, which he conducted with The recent letter addressed by Lord GReNVILLE ; " FEB. 3'.—A Commission is to be established great skill and success over the Marisma, which, at to the head of s tlie Catholics of Ireland, has been I here, to investigate the importation of produce ; se this season of the year was supposed to be imps- humorously denominated " The first Epistle to ' that such as cannot be proved to come from neutral the Romans." i countries shall be condemned." sable for an army. He was pursued b y the French i a Ccete-Exesteezelt, FEB. 16.—This clay there are 1 " FEB. 6.—Marshal Verhuelt into come here as cavalry as far as Lebrixa, but finding that they could several further arrivals of Wheats with a continua Governor-General, &c. Business is at a stand, as ,-- : n i ce of large remaining suppligo of Foreign—fine people are afraid of kloisniciliary visits !" not overtake him, they there stopp ed their p ursuit In request, at last prices—other qualities heavy sale ;• " FEB. s.—lt appears cettaite that the first ftini- Before his arrival we had not above one thou- Barley in great abundance—seconds and ordinary , lies in 13raliant have received . intimation to send mud troops of the line to defend this ,place and 8 to 12 years of age, to the Lyc sum cheaper ; Malt and White Peas nearly at late pr i c es ; ' their boys, from the city of Cadiz. Our fleet is at length equipped 13,eans of the two kinds likewise ; new Trick deems, at - hris 'in e der to be educated there. Our 5t0 4 :1;3 . 355. 10 38s , per eearter ; Oats are in considerable decline V incite - and niore ; the 7 per cents. are at 50 and ready to put to sea, and is now its the outer har - supply, and rather lower ; Flour remains at late pW'earitS a . and We continue in anxious expetation ef hour. We have great confidence in CASTANOS and prices. t what is to take place." '.. • 'JAIIIAICeI PAPERS. issued from the press for many years. ESSEX ELECTION.--The numbers polled yester day were as follow Mr. Houblon - . - 1* Mr. Burgoyne ' - - Total for Mr. floublon . 239 z Mr. Burgoj•ne - 777 tions. The following vessels of the fleet are arrived at the undermentioned out-ports: . At Port Morant : —Ship Charlotte, Sale, of Bristol. At Falmouth : —Ships Volunteer, Barwise, and TrelawilY, Whiteside, of Whitehaven ; and Montreal, Fish, and Ann, Thomson, at Greenock. At 4..ticea —:Ship jamaica, Burns, of Greenock. At_SSlt- River ; —Ship Clyde, Payne, of Liverpool. FRENCH DECREE. We n• V_ " 1 :7,d big ted ary t ble I be l aVe 7 in : sir net) Sick Toat blic, for ist a With )art - Or- ons, Fore, it 1 10 1, it prO' ;oil] t rned sub- ralty Lord the °old it to ouid ger' 1 for 'oll l ' i oed ex' lere the atecl an" . , not hart! bad fl ee ? t Or orris take S g".• d, ) ,;c, Bar igrUt bad d ar sty l (l the Viers sac- idea o W- per ~nc~. nip-